236 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
taking, curing, and drying fish on certain coasts of the British 
North American Colonies therein defined, the inhabitants of 
the United States shall have, in common with the subjects 
of Her Britannic Majesty, the liberty to take fish of every kind, 
except shell-fish, on the sea-coasts and shores, and in the bays, 
harbors, and creeks of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, 
Prince Edward’s Island, and of the several islands thereunto 
adjacent {and, by another article, Newfoundland], without be- 
ing restricted to any distance from the shore, with permission 
to land upon the coasts and shores of those Colonies and the 
islands thereof, and also upon the Magdalen Islands, for the 
purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish 5, provided 
that, in so doing, they do not interfere with the rights of pri- 
vate property, or with British fishermen in the peaceable use 
of any part of the same coast in their occupancy for the same 
purpose, 
“Tt is understood that the above-mentioned liberty applies 
solely to the sea-fishery, and that the salmon and shad fisheries, 
and all fisheries in rivers and the mouths of rivers, are her eby 
reserved exclusively for British fishermen.” 
Similar provision was made in Article IL, with like 
exception, for the admission of British subjects to 
take fish on a part of the sea-coasts and shores of the 
United States. 
It was further agreed that Commissioners should 
be appointed, who shall 
“Examine the coasts of the North American provinces and 
of the United States embraced within the provisions of the 
first and second articles of this treaty, and shall designate the 
places reserved by the said articles from the common right of 
fishing therein.” 
But these provisions were temporary only, being 
subject to be terminated on a year’s notice, after the 
expiration of ten years, and the treaty was in. fact 
